My PSU during 1976 to 1979 was a place was first and foremost a place to learn and grow as a young man. My PSU was a place of higher education, where most of our time was spent in class, studying, reading, and homework. My PSU was also a place where we worked to support human rights. My PSU was a place where I created a newspaper that did investigative reporting for a PSU branch campus, where I received a "Freedom of the Press award." My PSU was where I wrote for Daily Collegian, and I was proud to interview people regarding social and political concerns affecting the area, the government, and the world. My PSU was one where was huddled together in animated conversations in Pattee Library on Constitutional Law, or where we gathered together in The Diner to discuss the merits and the possibilities of new Mideast Peace agreements and the Camp David Accords resulting in an Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. My PSU was one where people protested about the treatment of people in Iran. My PSU was where our press club was next to the LGBT club and we sat many hours chatting on human rights and dignity. My PSU was where I spent the nights with my typewriter and a Pepsi, later to become my signature cup of coffee (acquired at the Corner Room Restaurant), writing missive after missive - hitting the keys with a clack, clack, clack - as my cat Pumpkin looked on. My PSU was walking my black cat along the streets of State College. My PSU was pleasant evenings having Chinese food with friends, or quiet evenings at the laudromet while reading. My PSU was priceless moments with my father having lunch and cup of a coffee at the Hetzel Union Building (HUB) cafeteria. My PSU is where I met great people, great friends, and we had many laughs and fine moments. My PSU is where I first met a young woman recruited by a cult and I tried to save her. My PSU is where we would not tolerate crime and where my neighbors and I worked with the police to get criminals and drug dealers who would hide in our midst arrested. My PSU was evening movies with friends. My PSU was seeing the Force of Luke Skywalker and the Jedi Knights. My PSU was the law club, which passionately about a commitment to the law, celebrating Law Day, and finding inventive ways to discuss and debate how law should apply in society. My PSU was so often finding ways to help people, fellow student, residents, and people everywhere. My PSU was evenings sitting on the wall on summer nights with no air conditioning, feeling the evening breeze and watching the world go by. My PSU was this and so much MORE. The one thing that my PSU was really never about was Football. My PSU, my alma mater, my UNIVERSITY was so rich, so diverse, so busy - I never had time for it, and you know I don't regret one moment. My PSU was a UNIVERSITY - not a money making machine dependent on college sports programs. That is the PSU that I came to know and love in my years there from 1976 until I graduated in November 1979. I know that was all yesterday. But the PSU can still be the PSU that you can come to know.